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A suffragette march

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Simon Schama photographed in Hauteville House, Guernsey (Photo by Oxford Films, Photographer Eddie Knox)

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It was the need for witnesses in divorce courts – ones who wouldn’t mind their names being linked to scandals, no less – that partly gave rise to female detectives. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

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Victoria, Albert and their children admire the royal Christmas tree

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The 1851 Great Exhibition’s west wing

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Mary Seacole as seen in a contemporary photo. Although she became famous for her nursing work in the Crimean War, her story subsequently became largely forgotten. (Photo by Alamy)

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A late 18th-century painting of British and French sailors going head-to-head at war

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A meeting of early 19th century Freemasons in which the an apprentice or candidate is introduced to the lodge (Photo by Alamy)

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The eyes of American actress Gene Tierney. (Photo via John Kobal Foundation/Getty Images)

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The then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump taking part in the final presidential debate at the Thomas & Mack Center on the campus of the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, 19 October 2016. Trump repeatedly claimed that the election was “rigged” against him. (Photo by Joe Raedle/AFP/Getty Images)

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A 19th-century painting of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln

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View of East Cemetery Hill at Gettysburg National Military Park in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (Photo by Library of Congress)

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Sunbathers on Blackpool beach in 1954. (Credit: John Chillingworth/Getty Images)

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